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CONTENTS. 



Notes for the Month — Page 



Foot-and- Mouth Disease — Importation of Store Cattle — Acreage under 

 Crops and Number of Livestock in 1921 — Conciliation Committees — 



Agricultural Index Number — Imperial Fruit Show, 1922 ... 1057 



Young Farmers' Clubs. F. E. Bussy 1068 



The National Institute of Agricultural Botany and Official 



Seed Testing Station. W. H. Parker, M.C, M.A. 1072 



Ploughing and Ploughing Matches. H. G. Richardson, M.A., B.Sc, 



and G. E. Fussell 1084 



Diseases of the Swede Crop in Cumberland and Westmorland in 



1921. R. B. Strang, N.D.A 1093 



Cultivation of the Hop Crop. II. — Systems and Methods of 



Training. Arthur Amos, M.A. 1096 



Gloucestershire Old Spots Pigs. Sanders Spencer 1105 



The Spraying of Cornfield Weeds with Sulphatjl-jOF Ammonia 



John Porter, B.Sc, N.D.A., N.D.D 1109 



Possibilities for Fruit Growing in the Northern Counties. 



G. P. Berry 1116 



Trials of Spring Cabbage. J. C. Wallace 1121 



Potato Pi: k Rot : A Disease new to England. A. D. Cotton ... 1126 



The Turnip Gall Weevil. P. V. Isaac, M.Sc, F.E.S 1130 



Food and Feeding Habits of the Little Owl. — II. Walter E. Collinge, 



D.Sc, F.L.S 1133 



Notes on Manures for March. E. J. Russell, D.Sc, F.R.S. ... 1140 



Official Seed Testing Station 1144 



The Annual Report of the Chief Veterinary Officer for 1920 1145 



Investigations into Silver Leaf Disease 1146 



Immunity Trials of Potatoes, 1921 1147 



Prosecutions under Foot-and-Mouth Disease Orders 1150 



Eradication of Rabies in Great Britain... 115° 



Additions to Library 1151 



Index to Volume XXVIII. 



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